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27.0.50; pure space and pdumper

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, rpluim <at> gmail.com, stefan <at> marxist.se,
 schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, pipcet <at> gmail.com,
 36649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: Re: bug#36649: 27.0.50; pure space and pdumper
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 19:32:13 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Keeping unexec doesn't mean breaking it .  If we believe someone might
> need that configuration, then we should give them a full-fledged
> Emacs, not a crippled one.

How crippled are we talking?

> The patch can easily be tweaked to make the changes conditioned by
> HAVE_PDUMPER, so I believe there's no need to argue about this nit:
> let's simply remove purespace from the pdumper builds, and leave it
> alone in the unexec builds.

That would be a whole lot of #ifs in the code, and wouldn't make the
change worth it -- in that case, I'd rather wait until we get rid of 
unexec before getting rid of pure space.

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